Steve's Book Awards

Steve's Article/Journal Awards

2006 McFarland-SABR Baseball Research AwardSteve’s article,"Matty and the Browns: A Window onto the AL-NL War (1901-1902)," received the 2006 McFarland-SABR Baseball Research Award. The article appeared in NINE: A Journal of Baseball History and Culture, Volume 14, No. 2 (Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, Spring 2006), pages 102-117.

The forgotten story of Christy Mathewson's signing an ironclad contract with the St. Louis Browns in the summer of 1902, and how the Browns gave up the star pitcher as part of the peace settlement between the American and National Leagues in January, 1903.